Improved device for protecting soles of boots and shoes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANZ VESTER, OF PFORZHEIM, GRAND DUOHY OF BADEN, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES WAGNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

f IMPROVED DEVICE FOR PROTECTING SOLES OF BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 36,385, dated September 2, 11562.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANZ VEsTER, of the city 0f Pforzheim, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Protecting Leather Shoe-Soles Vof these devices have had some objectionable features which my device is calculated to remedy.

My device is constructed and applied as follows: I take thin pieces of hardened steel or iron cut to any ornamental form, specimens of which are seen in the Nos. 1 to 8, and insert them in recesses in the face of the leather sole, made exactly to fit them. Through each of these ornamental pieces there is a small hole made' and a corresponding hole in the sole, and on the inner sido there is put another thin plate or washer inserted flush with the surface of the sole. This may be round, as seen at No. 3 of the drawing. A rivet of softer metal unites the plates with the sole in a permanent manner, and the sole is ready to be applied to the shoe or boot in any of the usual ways.

I do not Wish to be understood as claiming metallic studs orother protections to shoes and boots, as that has before been done; but

What I do claim is- The employment of the thin hardened plates or washers with rivets connecting them with the soles 'of boots and shoes, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

FRANZ VESTER. [L s] Witnesses:

J. FEED. WAGNER,

LEOPOLD LEVI. 

